US Patent Issued to LUMICARE IP on Nov. 18 for "Ultrasound transducer disinfecting method, device and electronic apparatus capable of monitoring heat" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,277, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to LUMICARE IP PTY LTD (Brighton, Australia).

"Ultrasound transducer disinfecting method, device and electronic apparatus capable of monitoring heat" was invented by Tong Liu (Victoria, Australia), Andrew Kobylinski (Victoria, Australia), Matthew Hollier (Victoria, Australia), Bo Sun (Victoria, Australia) and Guang Gao (Victoria, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a method of performing high-level disinfection of medical instruments comprising: providing a disinfecting enclosure for receiving the medical instrument to be disinfected; actuating the disinfecting enclosure to...